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«Castle Nectar» nuclear test, 1.69 Megatons, Eniwetok Atoll, 6:20 a.m. May 14, 1954. The «Zombie» TX-15 device was a radiation imploded fusion boosted fission bomb, 80% of its energy release from fission.

«Koa» thermonuclear explosion, 1.37 Megatons, Eniwetok Atoll, 6:30 a.m. May 13, 1958. The test was conducted in a large water tank.

«Encino» thermonuclear test, 500 kilotons, air burst 1679 m, Christmas Island, May 12, 1962. This free-fall drop tested the LASL-designed XW-43Y5 warhead. The mushroom cloud rose to 19 km.

«Butternut» nuclear test, 81 kilotons, barge, Eniwetok Atoll, 6:15 a.m. May 12, 1958. TX-46 primary test.

«Fir» thermonuclear test, 1.36 Megatons, barge, Bikini Atoll, 5:50 a.m. May 12, 1958. «Clean» 2-stage TN device, 93.4% fusion yield.

May 11, 1962, the U.S. conducted a unique nuclear test: in the Pacific Ocean the destroyer «Agerholm» launched an anti-submarine rocket ASROC with a nuclear warhead W-44, with a yield of 10 kt. The rocket flew 3975 m, dove into the water and exploded at a depth of 198 m.

FCDA workers hold a "before" picture in front of a building destroyed in a nuclear test blast, 29 kilotons. 1430 m from the Ground Zero. 1955.

«Encore» 27-kiloton nuclear test, conducted at the Nevada Test Site on May 8, 1953. These rare amateur photographs were taken at Indian Springs Air Force Base.

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In 1977-1980 the crater created by the «Cactus» nuclear test was used as a burial pit to inter 84,000 cubic meters of radioactive soil scraped from the various contaminated Eniwetok Atoll islands. The Runit Dome was built to cover the material. Aerial view.

«Cactus» land-surface nuclear test, 18 kilotons, Eniwetok Atoll, 6:15 a.m. May 6, 1958. LASL test of a MK-43 primary in a thermonuclear system mockup.

«Lacrosse» land-surface nuclear test, 40 kilotons, Eniwetok Atoll, 6:25 a.m. May 5, 1956. LASL test of an externally initiated boosted primary in a thermonuclear system mockup for the TX-39.

«Apple-2» nuclear test, 29 kilotons, 150 m tower, Nevada Test Site, 5:10 a.m. May 5, 1955.

Preparations for the «Apple-2» nuclear test. Nevada Test Site, 1955. The photographs show automatic cameras mounted in protective capsules on a tower. They captured the destruction of buildings by the shock wave.

«Arkansas» thermonuclear explosion, 1.09 Megatons, air burst 1533 m, Christmas Island, May 2, 1962.

Soviet 1st May demonstration in Kiev just a few days after the disaster at Chernobyl, 1986. Radiation levels on this day ranged from 0.5 to 2.5 milliroentgens per hour.

April 30 is Hairstyle Appreciation Day. Nuclear tests inspired some hairdressers to create hairstyles shaped like a nuclear explosion. 1950s.

ARAC LLNL simulation showing the dispersion of radioactivity after the Chernobyl accident in 1986.

@atomicdeborah no, USA.

@atomicarchive British?

«Aztec» thermonuclear test, 410 kilotons, air burst 795 m, Christmas Island, April 27, 1962.